AUGUSTA (AP) — A candidate for the Maine Legislature is being charged with falsifying documents to show that he qualified for public funding under the Maine Clean Election Act.
Forty-two-year-old Michael Hein of Augusta was summonsed on a charge of theft by deception after an investigation by the Maine attorney general’s office.
He’s accused of using his own money to meet a small donation threshold that would have allowed him to receive about $1,400 in Clean Elections money for his primary campaign, and if he won that, another $3,900 for the general election.
A Maine Ethics Commission investigation found that Hein falsified forms signifying that donors had given him $5. Hein had until Wednesday to appeal the commission’s decision to deny him campaign funding but decided against an appeal.
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